Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Allah Aide You With the Holy Spirit Khatm Shamail Ummah Ctr 03272021
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I share the excitement and the enthusiasm
that
Sheikh Musa
expressed.
And I would like to add to it
that there are great parts of our deen
that we have ourselves missed
out on, that we've ourselves been deprived of,
because of our lack of
attention and importance that we give to gatherings
like this.
Even
Sidi Anas who,
with,
Sidi Sami Masha'Allah read
these nasheed so beautifully for us,
and these words of praise of the Prophet
The average Muslim in America,
if they were to see it, they would
say, what is this?
You're coming together to sing poetry? This reminds
me of church. People say things like this.
Whereas these are established traditions in the Muslim
lands and Muslim countries. People say,
ah, that's your culture. Leave your culture at
home.
Okay. Go ahead, leave your culture at home.
If you actually read the the text earlier
today,
Mawlana
didn't it pass the poetry of the Prophet
that he enjoyed.
He himself wasn't a poet, but he would
listen to the poetry of the poets
that was said in truth.
He didn't enjoy listening to aesthetic poetry.
But when the poet would say some piece
of truth, he would enjoy listening to it.
The poet laureate of the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Hassan al Thabit. By far he wasn't the
only poet from the companions of the Allahu
Anhu.
Saeedna Ali, his poetry is amazing.
The Khulafar Rashidun, there are abi'at attributed to
them. There are entire dawaween, anthologies of poetry
that you can find from various prominent companions.
Hassan al Thabit was actually paid in gold
by kings to write,
panjuric
poetry,
Qasaid in their praise.
And there are a lot of interesting stories
about it. We don't have time to get
into it. But he used to make a
lot of money. He used to make a
lot of money for the poetry that he
would write.
Something about Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam captured
his heart. He abandoned all of that and
lived the rest of his life in poverty
in Madinah Munawara. And he lived to a
very old age. He died over a 100
years old.
He lived to a very old age.
Hassan de Thabit radiAllahu anhu, when he would
write poetry,
he would write it in
defense of Islam against
the nonsense accusation
that disbelievers would make against it. Today, 2021
is not the only time when people Fox
News gets up and manufactures nonsense about
Islam. And it's not just Fox News, they're
all Fox News.
All of them are.
BBC is Fox News with a British accent.
CNN is Fox News for a particular class.
It's all the same.
This is not the only time they used
to do it. The mushiqim, the idol worshipers
of Quraysh used to manufacture nonsense against the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Not only would
they answer their lies about Islam, but they
would do it in style.
And And the Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi
wasalam used to listen to his poetry.
The companions would sit.
And they would listen to his poetry.
Even in the Haram Sharif it was mentioned.
Even in the Haram Sharif someone chastised another.
Why are you reciting poetry in front of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
In the mastulullah Haram, in the shade of
the Kaaba? The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam says,
No. He's saying the truth. Let him keep
saying it.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam said to Hassan
al Thabit when he would say this poetry,
this poetry.
That
Allah sends down the Holy Spirit.
As long as you, as long as you
say your
poetry in defense of Islam and say it
in praise of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in praise of
me.
You know what the Holy Spirit is?
It's not God. It's not the Trinity. It's
an expression that they used to use. The
Trinity is something that becomes a formulation of
of of Christianity
centuries later, centuries even after the gospel.
Even centuries after the Christians started believing that
Audubillah, that that Christ is the Son of
God,
But they still didn't have the idea of
the trinity. Trinity is something that happened sometime
later.
The Holy Spirit is something that they understood
was a divine
aid, a divine help that would come down
on the believers.
At certain times that would increase their iman,
would aid them in what they were doing.
So for example, there's a holiday that the
christians celebrate called the Pentecost
that appear that that the story is that
the the,
disciples of Christ, they came together
and the Holy Spirit,
inspired them. And all of them could speak
the different tongues of the different nations of
the earth in order to go and take
the
good news,
of the gospels to them.
This is a story. It's there in
the injeel. This actually happened to the companions
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Say, now, Abdul Abin Abbas radiAllahu anhu, people
would come from the different nations of the
earth to Hajj. He would give He would
teach about Islam and give dawah to people
in their languages. And people were astonished. How
could you learn all these languages?
Hassan bin Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala to say, Zayd
bin Thabit radiAllahu anhu, the secretary of the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. In
a matter of weeks, he learned Syriac. He
learned Hebrew. He learned a number of different
languages. He used to keep the correspondence of
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam between all
the different kings. He learned within within 1
week. It was a miracle.
Rasulullah
said
what? Keep reciting this poetry as long as
you keep reciting this poetry in defense of
Islam and in praise.
Not praise like hamda praise of Allah. Like
in fakhr,
in pride in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
As long as you keep reciting this poetry
of praise,
Allah ta'ala will aid you with the Holy
Spirit.
With the ruhulquds.
If you think it was a one time
deal and now that offers expired, you're wrong.
How many people from that time until this
time, the love of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wasalam was a cause for Allah's madad and
taeed to come down?
The aid, the divine aid that comes from
a higher realm.
Don't you know what that is? That's why
we're here together. Don't let these
gatherings become just another cultural relic.
Rather the way you keep them as part
of the deen and not make them into
a cultural relic is by your ihtiqad, by
your belief inside of your heart. That this
is a source of help from the Lord.
Allah sent his messenger
and commanded
the entire creation
to listen and to obey,
that if you want to serve me, you
will listen to this message through this conduit.
Just like somebody writes you a letter, you
have to also read the paper that
letter is written on.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent a messenger with
the message and the messenger was also part
of the message. It's like this with every
one of the prophets and Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi
Wasallam is the greatest of the prophets.
Don't let the songs become a cultural relic.
Rather, have i'tikad, have belief inside of your
heart. This is a way that we receive
help from Allah.
This is the way that we receive love
from Allah. This is the way that we
attract
the attention of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's mercy
and his help to us.
The Hadith of the Prophet SAW,
mentioned in this book.
Don't let the khatam be a cultural relic
that we just show up for the cookie
and cake that happens afterward. That's fine too.
That's good. Go ahead and eat it. Enjoy
it. It's halal inshaAllah. Sheikh Musa would never
feed you something that that's Haram.
But also read what's inside the hadith. Let
it inspire you.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's mentioned, it's
mentioned in this, in this wonderful collection.
That a man came to the messenger of
Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam asking him for
money. And said, Nama radiallahu anhu is with
him.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam very politely
responded to them
and very humbly responded to him and said,
I don't have
something to give you right now, but follow-up
with me. I promise I'll
take care of your need
when you come again. He had already asked
for money and gotten it in the past.
He came again.
And look at the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, this is what we wanna
be, this is what we aspire to even
if we can't be like that ourselves, at
least we believe inside our hearts this is
a better way of being.
Which is what?
Normally when somebody owes you money or when
you want money from someone, you have to
be nice to them to get it out
of them. When someone asks you, you have
the luxury of blowing them off.
Look at Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasallam. A man
in need came to him to ask him,
not the first time, but again.
And he so humbly
told him I don't have anything but come
back next time. I promise you I'll have
it. As if he owes the man money.
He doesn't owe him anything. Said Na'am radiAllahu
anhu saw this.
And there's a point in what Sayna Amr
radiAllahu anhu said and how he reacted as
well. Why are these people bothering the Rasool
Sallallahu alaihi wasallam? He's not your ATM.
You're supposed to come here and you're supposed
to tell him, let me serve you. Let
me give something to you. How can I
benefit from you?
And this guy is hitting him up for
money again.
He's not your ATM.
He said, you Rasool Allah.
Allah didn't make you responsible to give all
of these people, like, more than what you
have.
So, you know, as if to say why
does this guy keep coming and asking? Let's
just like turn them away.
And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
in that moment By the way he said,
Omer, what he said wasn't wrong.
But in that moment,
those who were present in that gathering, they
realized something that the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam wasn't happy with what Umar
said.
And so one of the one of the
Ansar, one of the native
native,
companions of Madinah,
he picked up on this and he looked
at him. He says, You Rasoolullah,
I say
you should give like a man
who doesn't fear
any sort of poverty or any sort
of need or any sort of
lack.
Because he has the one who owns the
the the magnificent throne behind him.
Allah ta'ala who's magnificent Aush, who's a magnificent
throne,
is greater than the heavens and the earth
and all of the creation combined.
When he gives the one who has Allah
ta'ala with him, that one never fears falling
short. And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
the hadith is what? And it's narrated by
one of Umar's sons, rasallahu anhu man.
He said that the Messenger of Allah saw
and he
smiled.
People could see the happiness in his face.
That this Ansari understood. He gets it there
on the same level
and he says, yes, this is what I
was sent with.
Let's sing the praise of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam. Not just to say, oh, my
Prophet is bigger than yours. You can beat
yours up.
That's that's like tribalism. That's not what we're
talking about. We're talking about what?
Let that nur enter inside of your heart
to the point where you like to give
better than you like to receive.
Because that's how that Rasool salallahu alaihi wasalam
was. That that's such a barakah. Whenever you
feel that barakah inside of your heart, you
get madr.
3 3, 2 or 3,
narrations with you. Inshallah, what we what we
read from this, like, really long collection of
something like 400 some odd hadith,
just so that we can all take away
some lesson that when we sing the nasheed,
we can know what to remember and what
the greatness is and what we can aspire
to. Even though it's hard, it's hard to
do those things. It's hard for anyone except
for the one who their heart is filled
with Allah Ta'ala's help. It's hard for anyone
except for the one who the
the Holy Spirit fills them. Then they do
those acts that even the Saints will envy.
Sadna
Al Hasan, the grandson of the Messenger of
salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I asked my
maternal uncle, Hind, ibn Abi Hala, who was
skilled in describing and praising the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam to describe for me the
speech of the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi
wasallam. He said the messenger of Allah salallahu
alaihi wasallam was in a continual state of
worry. Mutawasul
al Ahisanin always absorbed in deep thought. He
never had any rest and he would remain
silent for long periods and would never speak
without me.
This is despite the fact that he was
always
described as smiling at others,
but he would make it easy for others
inside of himself. He was always in pain
and always in worry. Sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He would begin and end his speech by
mentioning the name of Allah most exalted. His
speech was compendious
and his words were distinguished. They were neither
too much nor too little. He was neither
course nor demeaning.
He honored blessings even if they were small
and never found fault with any of them.
He would never find fault with praise or
the taste of food or drink. Meaning, he
wasn't he wasn't constantly taking pictures of things
he ate and posting it on Instagram. That's
not how he defined himself, by food and
drink.
It's fine. It's not haram and stuff like
that. But the point is what? That's not
how he defined himself, by what he ate
and drink.
That's how animals define themselves. Carnivore, herbivore. That's
how they define themselves by what they eat
or drink. That's not
that's not that's not what we're here for.
The lower world, this lower material world, did
not anger him nor did any of its
affairs.
But if the truth was transgressed against, meaning
Islam was transgressed against or someone's right was
transgressed against, nothing would quell his anger until
he sought justice for it. He would never
become angry for his own sake nor seek
to avenge himself.
He would never become angry for his own
sake nor seek to avenge himself.
When he would point at something, he would
point with his whole hand. And when he
was amazed by something, he would turn his
hand over, he would flip his hand, and
he would gesture with his entire hand in
speaking, and strike the inside of his left
thumb with his right palm. When he was
angry, he would turn away.
When he was delighted, he would lower his
gaze. His laughter was mostly smiles.
And when he was when he would laugh,
his teeth appeared,
snow white
like hailstones.
The love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
It's narrated by Anas ibn Malikar of the
allahu anhu that there was a man from
the Bedouins named Zahim. The Bedouins are what?
Those people who live in tents. They're nomads.
They're very poor people. They're not
people of status in society.
There was a man from the Bedouins named
Zahir
who would give the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam things from the desert and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would give him supplies
when he would take his leave.
So what? He's like a herder, so he'd
like bring milk or bring some wild honey
or something like that from the desert. Like
small gifts of a poor simple humble man.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would give
him supplies when he took leave. The messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, Zahir is
our companion in the desert and we are
his companion in the city.
This is not somebody who's gonna like become
a king through or a great warrior or
make money from or make connections or make
contacts or make business or anything.
It's a very simple and humble man.
He said, Zahir is our companion of the
desert and we are his companion in the
city. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam loved him
dearly.
Anas ibn Malik who
politely mentions,
now Zahir was an unsightly man.
He wasn't a very handsome person according to
conventional
standards.
Now Zahir was an unsightly man, and one
day the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam approached him
as he was selling his wares in the
marketplace.
He went behind Zahir and embraced him. Zahir,
unable to see who it was, cried out,
Who are you? Let me go.
When he glanced back slightly,
he saw that it was the Prophet
and tried best to rub his back against
the Mubar chest of the Prophet
Now instead of fighting, they embrace in order
to accept it.
And they were in the marketplace, right? So
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam began to cry
out.
He was joking with him a little bit.
Right? He was light hearted, he was like
completely serious. Not everything is a funeral, masha
Allah.
The Prophet began to cry out, who will
purchase the slave?
Zayr said, O Messenger of Allah,
in that case
you're not going to get much money because
I am
that merchandise that's going to sell at a
loss. No one will buy me.
The Messenger of Allah
said, no, in the sight of Allah, you
are not valueless.
Rather in the sight of Allah Ta'ala, you're
precious, you're of great value.
This is why we say he was the
best of God's creation.
Not because, you know, like, oh, we're Muslims
and so, like, we're like
like in the religious equivalent of Crips and,
like, the Christians are the religious equivalent of
blood. So we got beef just because, you
know, blue and red, you know, for no
reason.
No.
If somebody else brings this, then we'll see
value in them as well.
This is why these are the reasons why
the madad comes down. If you and me
can do this as well, if we can
see in those
people that society has turned their back on,
nobody else sees any value in them.
They themselves don't see any value in themselves,
but we see value by the grace of
Allah we see value in them. And we
make them feel that value, then also the
ruhul qudis will come down on you as
well.
The madad will come to you as well.
But everybody wants to chase the people who
have money, and who have power, and who
have beauty. Nobody wants to,
you know, see where the actual value is,
the value that Allah placed in every person.
Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha, the
and never held back from sharing her opinion
even with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
She was 18 at the time the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam passed away and
lived an entire life.
She was honored by the khulafa Rashidun to
the point where they they she would the
sitting Khalifa, she would oppose their
legal opinions and more often than not, the
Khalifa, when they heard that she had a
different opinion, they would
come back from their opinion and and accept
hers as
the one which is authoritative.
And if anyone wants to know about someone,
ask their wife about them, ask their husband
about them.
And Sheikh ends there. Now you'll find out
that the, you know, the untold moulehne sab,
the untold story.
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
never struck anything with a blessed hand, she
said, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. She know he never
struck anything with his blessed hand unless he
was in the field of battle.
He never struck neither a servant or a
slave
nor did he strike a woman.
In other narrations, he never struck even an
animal. He never struck even a child
with his Mubar Khan.
If anyone ever had
the right to strike another person, imagine that
The Masoom Messenger of Allah, the greatest of
Allah's creation, he never lost patience to the
point where he struck somebody except for in
the battlefield.
And the last, hadith I wanted to share,
there's so many, you know, beautiful gems that
make a person cry if you if you
see them.
But, we have very little time, and I
don't want this, just to drag to the
point of boredom.
That I, shaladhiallahu alaihi wa sallam, also narrated,
and never saw the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam exact revenge for personal injustice done
against
him,
so long as
Allah's sanctity was not violated.
If it was someone else's right, he would
stand for it. If it was Allah's right,
he would stand for it. If it had
to do with his own self, someone just
violated one of his rights, he would always
forgive it. So I never saw him take
revenge for a personal injustice done against him,
so long as the sanctities of Allah were
not violated.
However, if any of Allah's sanctities were violated,
sanctities were violated,
he would be the angriest of people for
that. And people have this idea that, you
know, the sunnah is to be a bunny
rabbit. No.
The oppressor wants you to be a bunny
rabbit. It's gonna say, look, the prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam forgave everything.
So don't be upset when
unarmed black people in the city are choked
out and tapped out, shot, killed, electrocuted.
Don't be angry. We should be people of
forgiveness.
When wars are waged against entire nations of
the earth, bomb them back into the stone
age.
Don't be angry, the prophet was never angry.
Hey, let's sing a nasheed. Didn't Sheikh say
that that's a good thing?
No.
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wasalam was
the one who was most fervent in exacting
justice in those situations.
The sunnah is not to be a bunny
rabbit in the face of tyranny.
Rather, the companions prided themselves.
They're the ones, they straightened out the the
necks of tyrants on the ends of their
spears. That's why we say, radiAllahu anhu, the
creation needs people to stand up for the
weak and the oppressed and those that injustice
is done against. However,
however, when
it had something to do with him personally,
he always forgave.
The world needs less people who get angry
for their own nafs, for their own ego.
He never was put in a position to
choose between 2 things, except for he chose
the easier of the 2. The easier of
the 2
unless unless it involved a sin. Unless it
involved a sin. And don't think that the
nafsas, you know, the nafs a person's ego
is only there,
when you want to eat or drink or
in your carnal desires. Sometimes people have nafs
in their deen as well.
Sometimes the sunnah is to do what's easier
but your nafs likes doing what's harder so
you're gonna show them I'm I'm hardcore. Remember
Sheikh Tamir talking? I'm hardcore. I'm hardcore. It's
Islam brothers and sisters. It's not a prison
gate.
We don't need to show everybody on the
on the on the prison yard how tough
we are.
Rather choose the path of the Rasulullah
will aid you with the Holy Spirit. Allah
will aid you with his madad, with his
divine assistance.
The one who has the
the possessor of the mighty and the magnificent
throne with him, That one never
fears poverty, never fears lack.
Let that idea enter into your heart when
you hear the nasheed and after you hear
the nasheed.
And when you think of Islam, let that
be what your Islam is. Not political slogans
or all this other stuff. It's fine. Politics
is part of the deenah as well. I'm
not denying that and we should also be
thoughtful about all of those things, but that's
not
where the khair, where the goodness of all
these things come from. The goodness of all
these things come from what? The proof that
Allah put in the messenger of Allah
in his beauty so that we could also
know what goodness is. And those of us
who life has broken us by its cruelty
and by its injustices toward us, can know
that no matter how small injustice or how
small cruelty,
even when it's painful,
even when it breaks us,
That no matter when that cruelty affects us,
it breaks us, it pains us, it causes
us to cry.
We know that the sight of beauty and
the sight of goodness is greater than it
and it will always win. It will always
overpower it. A day will come where all
of us will bear witness
to it. All we have to do is
have faith, and on that day,
That day those people that bear witness to
that beauty overwhelming every ugliness and every pain,
every injustice.
Allah Ta'ala himself says in his book
that the last thing that they'll cry out,
the last thing that they'll have to say
after everything is said and done
is praise be to Allah Ta'ala, the Lord
of the world.